NEO_ARTEFACTS is an experimental initiative by Fazleen Karlan that looks into the intersection between art and archaeology.
Drawing from her past experience as a post-excavation technician, NEO_ARTEFACTS seeks to reassemble fragments of material from different timeframes, constructing personal and cultural realities. Growing up as a millennial, the works conflate a variety of influences including the rise of the Internet and its material culture. NEO_ARTEFACTS has presented in several group exhibitions in Singapore and was an Artist-in-Residence with NTU Centre for Contemporary Art between April - August 2022.
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In the wake of a pandemic, essential items such as food, toilet paper, masks, cleaning products and others, have become part of material culture. The notion of value attributed to these items has shifted because of the sense of reassurance they evoke - that we would be able to ride through this time of uncertainty if we possess them. In a similar vein, desire becomes flat because the items that we gravitate towards are attuned to our self-preservation.
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concrete, paper pulp, acrylic paint
2020
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2020
